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Magic Lessons Ep. 204: “Who Gets To Decide Whether You're A Legitimate Artist?" featuring Mark Nepo

Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert

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I Can't Stop Writing, I Just Couldn't.

"I felt so disconnected from who i thought i was. I had this purpose driving me for so long before that, and i felt really untethered and lost when i didn't have it any more," she says. "It took me a very long time to be able to sit down with myself as a writer again." 'We need a new perspective on this whole thing about who gets to decide and determine whether you are legitimate as an artist or not,' the poet adds.

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